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2010-10-17

Setting up RSS for Transmission

Setting up RSS for Transmission can be fairly difficult. It requires an application called "Flexget" which takes your RSS feed and downloads all the .torrent files to a specified directory. Transmission then takes these files that were dropped in the directory and opens them up to download them.

Here are the steps to get flexget working with transmission:

sudo apt-get update

Step 1:
Check to see if you have the right version of python installedpython -V

If your version is below 2.5.x then upgrade:sudo apt-get install python2.6

Tips on editing flexget file:
1. Always use 2 spaces, never use tab!
2. All plugins are supposed to be indented with exactly the same number of spaces
3. If a text value contains any special characters, (i.e. {}[]%:), it must be enclosed in single quotes,' '
4. If a text value contains a number it must be enclosed in single quotes, ' '

Step 6: initialize flexgetflexget --initdb

Step 7:
Add a crontab entry or add a script to cron.hourly to run flexget hourly or however often you would like